This is perhaps off topic but my cousin is a tour guide in one of the villages close to the border with the Germans. Thanks to this I had the opportunity to visit some of the Maginot bunkers where the French troops waited anxiously for the invasion to come to their doorstep. A few rooms had their walls entirely covered in miniature Mickeys, giving the place an eerie and deeply melancholic atmosphere.

The point of my post is that it feels really great that France and Germany are now allies, maybe even friends. You can criticize Europe a lot but at least we aren't fighting each other and hopefully won't do so for another century. Whenever I see Americans complaining about their country turning to shit I want to tell them to focus on the fact that it could have been so much worse.